clarke



(No Model.)

W. E. CLARKE.

GARMENT SUPPDRTER.

NO. 347,871. Patented Aug. 24, 1886.

WITNEEISEEII INV ENT UR:

Wilh'am E Clarke,

A H'ov neg IINITED STATES PATENT Fries.

IVILLIAM E. CLARKE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

ECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 347,871, dated August 24, 1886.

Application filed February 11, 1886. Serial No. 191,563. (No model.)

You whom it may concern: hook, to grip any article, F, placed over the Be it known that LIVILLIAM E. CLARKE, a hook, as shown in Fig. 3, the lever locking citizen of the'United States, residing at Provithe member 13 in a closed position, and the deuce, county of Providence, and State of spring function of said member allowing it to Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful accommodateitself to articles of various thick- 5 5 Improvement in Clasps; and I do hereby nesses,whicl1 will be securely held in the hook declare the following specification, taken in bythe fastening member.

connection with the accompanying drawings, When the finger-piece c of the lever O is forming a part of the same, to be a description raised, the member B will be lifted from the thereof. hook e and swung outward, as shown in Fig. 6(

This invention relates to a clasp which is 2, thereby releasing the clasp from the article. particularly adapted for use in a garment- In place of employing the lever O and hingsupporter, but may be employed for other ing the fastening member thereto, said lever purposes. may be dispensed with and the free ends of the r 5 It consists in a clasp having a body portion loop B,which forms the fastening1nember,1nay 6 5 constructed to be attached to or to receive a be brought together and passed through the band, a spring fastening member attached to bodyAto hinge the fastening member directly said body and adapted to be swung or moved thereto, as shown in Fig. 4, so that the said with relation thereto, and a hook on the body member can be moved or swung parallel with portion, which acts in conjunction with said the body A. In this construction the hook e 70 spring fastening member to attach the clasp on the body A is preferably provided with ato the article, as hereinafter described and hole or opening, e,which acts as a lock to the claimed. fastening member when the latter is in a closed In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 position.

shows the improved clasp in perspective with Instead of furnishing the body A with an 7 5 the spring fastening member closed. Fig. 2 opening, a, to form an eye, a, for receiving a shows the same with said member opened. band, the bodymay beprovided with tangs cf, Fig. 3 represents the clasp attached to an ar- (shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2,) which can ticle. Fig.4. shows amodillcation in perspecbe passed through the band A, and turned 0 tive. down thereon to secure the band to the clasp; so

A is the body of the clasp, which is preferor, if desired,-the body A may have both the ably made of sheet metal, andis provided with opening a and the tangs a". a hole, a, to form an eye, a, on said body for It will be seen thatin both the constructions the reception of a band, A, to which the clasp shown in Figs. 1 and 4 the fasteningmember is intended to be secured. B is a hinged loop having a spring function, 85

B is the spring fastening member,whieh is and that it acts in conjunction with the hook in the form of a wire loop. As shown in Figs. 6 on the body to secure the clasp to an article. 1, 2, and 3, the free ends of the member B are \Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Lethinged to a lever, 0, having a finger-piece, c, ters Patent, is

40 and said lever is hinged to the body A in 1. A clasp composed of abody portion formed 90 bearings (1, preferably formed by tangs inteat one end for direct attachment to a band,and gral with the body, and bentinto tubular form. having a hook, e, at its opposite end, and a Atitslowerend the bodyA is bent upwardly hinged spring fastening member having the to form a hook, e, which acts in conjunction form of a loop and adapted to act in conjunc- 5 with the spring member 13 to secure the clasp tion with said hook to secure the clasp to an 5 to the article. IVhen the lower portion of the article, substantially as described. member B is swung toward the body A, and 2. Aclasp composed of a body portion formed the finger-piece c of the lever O is depressed, at one end for direct attachment to a band, and the member 13 will be forced toward the hook provided with a hook, e, at its opposite end, a

e, thereby causing it, in conjunction with said hinged spring fastening member having the loo form of aloop, and meansforlooking said fastadapted to cooperate with said hook to seening member in a closed position in contact cure the clasp to an article, substantially as 10 with the hook, substantially as described. set forth.

3. The combination of the body A, con 5 structedasdesoribed,forattachmenttoz band, CLARKE and having a hook, e, a lever,0, hinged to said \Vitnesses: body, and a spring fastening member, B, in EDSON SALISBURY JONES,

the form of a loop hinged to said lever, and HENRY J. STAPLETON. 

